Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-05-25
Can a Cow olvo 10000 Lbs. of Milk q Year

EDITORS INDEX: see in your last
weeks issue, that Mr.. Eli Simmons
makes the statement that he "does not
believe that COW ever gave 10000 lbs.
of milk in one year" Now the opinion
OF any person upon a subject of this
kind does not amount to much ia face of
actual facts. The facts are that there are
quite number of COWS of the Holstein
breed that have given over twenty
thousand pounds in year. These facts
are verified by putting the cows under
the care of committee for a week or
two weeks, at different periods, being
MIXED in the presence of witnesses,
the milk weighed by the committee
themselves. Smith, Powell q Lamb
have nine IIolstein cows and heifers
that averaged u, 231 lbs. 8 I-9 or. of
milk in year they have 81 cows and
heifers that have made a milk record
that averaged IL, O64 lbs. 8 OF. In the
year 1856 their entire herd of mature
COWS averaged II, l66 lbs. OF. Clotilde
gave 26,02l lbs. 2 or. of milk in a year.
n tour-year-old heifer, Clotilde End
gave % COL lbs. 10 or. i'm one year.
Echo, COW bred by Gerritt Miller and
subsequently owned by +. q. Stevens,
gave over % 900 lbs. in a year. When
Clotilde's record was being made, a
committee was selected to verify the
record she was making, and that COM
mittee saw the COW MIXED for a week
at time and the milk weighed, at diff
ferent periods and they verified the re-
cord under oath. Lady Fay, Holstein
COW owned by Smith, Powell a. Lamb
gave last week at the dairy show under
the personal observation of the COM
mittee appointed for that purpose i'm
one day 20 lbs. 49, OF. Before she left
Lake Side farm to come to the show,
she gave over 20 lbs. of milk in a day.
| y two-year-Old heifer, Milla, owned by
ID. Is. Whipple, of Cuba, n. Y, that
saw her milk weighed one day after
she had been giving milk for IL months
and she gave As lbs. at that time. She
Is making record that will amount To
nearly 1900 lbs. in year as a two
year-oid. Peeterje End Millas dam gave
Mt the same time, and l saw the milk
weighed, over % lbs. in n day on dry
iteu. puTcuaSe0 Dull cali OF Mil as
sired by Netherland Duke for the Nil
Ter 4 Benedict Medicine Lodge stock
farm in your town that will be shipped
there next spring. KOloroma Boy. now
on our farm is as fine IlOlstein bull rs
can be found. / do not think there
Will De any trouble whatever i'm produc-
ing cows that Will give more than twice
the milk now given by the majority OF
cows of Barber county. Clotilde made
, lbs. ~ or. of butter in 81 hours at the
late cattle show in Madison Square
Garden she has made over "a lbs. in 9
week. DeVries, n COW owned by Stew
ems, OF Attica, ". Y, has recently
made a record of over 30 lbs. in a week
but this is not all: The Holsteins make
such line breed of cattle for beef that
they are being bred especially for thai
purpose. Taking them for all purpos-
eS they are probably the mos
valuable breed of cattle FOL
the majority of farmers to raise thai
have been introduced into this country
While not quite so good for beef as the
Short Horns, Herefords or Polled An
gus, they are far superior to the Guern
seys, Jerseys and Ayrshires, for beef
purposes, and they are showing as good
records for milk and butter as any
breed OF cattle, and they are not much
inferior even to the Short Horns FOL
beef. E. 2. MILLER.